Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Lambeth

Security Engineer
Central London > Lambeth

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Lambeth is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lambeth 33.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Central London median daily rate £556 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -7.29% +9.09% -18.52%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Lambeth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Lambeth. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Lambeth with a recognized job title 3 1 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £361 - £205
25th Percentile £378 - £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.92%
75th Percentile £453 - £391
90th Percentile £474 - £430
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.74% +34.62% -20.00%

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lambeth

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Lambeth region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lambeth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler